Essays Tagged: "William Herschel"

Aquarius. Viewing and history

he rings on Saturn. A very large telescope is needed to see its rings. It was discovered in 1782 by William Herschel. In a small telescopes it will appear as faint disks of fuzzy light. It lies southe ...

(2 pages) 66 0 4.9 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Uranium.

isted the temptation to give his own name to the new element, which was quite customary at the time.William Herschel gave uranium its name from the last planet founded in are solar system at the time, ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Uranium.

isted the temptation to give his own name to the new element, which was quite customary at the time.William Herschel gave uranium its name from the last planet founded in are solar system at the time, ...

(2 pages) 53 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The History of Forensic Science

is one invention aloud for a much more in depth look at evidence and the man that invented this was William Nichol. In 1835 Henry Goddard who was working for Scotland Yard did the very first bullet co ... ossible to photograph inmates for more complete prison records. In 1856 a British officer named Sir William Herschel was working for the Indian Civil Service started using fingerprints to verify docum ...

(4 pages) 164 1 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

This is on Reflecting telescopes, how they work, etc.

rrors can be made easier and cheaper than large lenses. The largest modern telescope are reflectors.William Herschel, an English observer, discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 with his large reflector ...

(1 pages) 38 1 3.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Research Paper on Electromagnetic Radiation

rays, which are invisible. The first discovery of this sort was made by the English astronomer Sir William Herschel, already famous as the discoverer of Uranus. In 1800, just as Newton had done, he p ...

(15 pages) 84 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

How is it known that the Earth rotates? Describe how precise measurements of this rotation, particularly those involving eclipses, have demonstrated that the Earth is gradually slowing down.

at the Moon was simply accelerating.This partial oversight may best be explained in a letter by Sir William Herschel published in 1781, in which he remarks that no astronomer had then investigated whe ...

(8 pages) 65 0 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Astronomy

system. Uranus is the mysterious blue planet that circles the sun, far from the Earth. A man named William Herschel first discovered this mysterious planet in 1781, he was a German musician living in ... t falls on them that's why they are so difficult to see from Earth. Uranus also has 15 known moons. William Shakespeare names the five previously known moons for characters in the play; they are Obero ...

(4 pages) 35 1 2.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy